Something somewhere must have
Something somewhere must have been going on.
Something somewhere must have been something in the script that had to be thrown out of the movie, considering that the director didn't want to be in it. He may have wanted to take some of the powers of the character and make it more human, but he couldn't do that with a script that made anyone who can speak Klingon or Khmer get killed. It was as if he wanted to call the movie a "hoot